Tricky twins
What does not have ING form in English?
1 Verb
2 Subject
3. Participle
Verb
Which constructions are wrong?
1. I am happy with the news
2. I am keen of museums
3. I go on for skiing
2,3
How many cases of Present Perfect usage do you know?
4
How do we recognize the infinitive?
by TO particle
Gerund is something
1. Between Verb and Noun
2. Between Adjective and Noun
3. Between Verb and Participle
Number 1
What is ING form here -
Poetry reading takes place every Friday. It is very popular with our students
Gerund
For which construction are both prepositions BY and WITH correct?
1. I am happy
2. The book is written
3. I am tired
Number 2
What Tenses can cry, scream, be angry and annoyed?
Continuous and Perfect Continuous
What can't infinitives be -
1. Simple, Continuous, Perfect
2. Past, Present, Future
3. Complex and Conditional
2,3
I saw her chatting with the other girl last Friday - what is ING-form here?
1. Gerund
2. Participle
3. Past Continuous
2
My hobby is swimming. ING-FORM here is -
1. Present Continuous
2. Participle
3. Gerund
Gerund
What are the right prepositions for the phrases -
1. Слушать кого-либо
2 Ждать кого-либо
3.Опаздывать куда-либо
1 TO
2 FOR
3 FOR
Which Tense is the most confident?
Present Continuous
IN WHICH CASES WILL THE INFINITIVE RETAIN ITS TO- PARTICLE?
1. After modal verbs
2. After make/let
3. After to be made/allowed
3
What are the verbs which change their meaning if followed by Gerund or Infinitive?
Forget, Regret, Remember, Stop, Try
What form does Participle have that Gerund doesn't ?
Participle II form
Give all popular prepositions for verbs
to think, to talk/speak, to look, to get
to think of /about; to talk/speak with/to/about; to look for, at, up, down, out of, after, forward; to get on/off, back, over, across, in/out, up/down, by, through, along, away(with)
When do Tenses stop working the way they should?
In indirect speech and sequence of Tenses (they do not show time of action anymore)
Which of the phrases don't exist -
1. I am happy to being spoken about at the party
2. I am happy to have spoken at the party
3. I am happy to will be spoken about at the party
1 and 3
After which verbs will we never use the Gerund -
1. afford decide manage offer
2. admit deny mention recall
3. avoid practice excuse
Number 1
Он был зол, потому что устал - what is the right translation of the sentence above?
He was angry, being tired
Prepositions of time - please, name all that you know and the cases, where they are used
at, in, on, from/to, till/until, after, about, before, between, by, during, from, for, since
What Tense is artificially made up ?
1. Future Perfect Continuous
2. Past Perfect Continuous
3 Future Continuous
4. Future in the Past
4
To cut a long.....short
To be......
To tell the......
to say the.....
to cut a long STORY short
to be HONEST/SERIOUS
to tell the TRUTH
to say the LEAST
What unites all the phrases used below -
Can't help/ it's no use/ what's the use of/ what's the point in/ have hard time/ feel like
They are all followed by Gerund